Improved washing-machine



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Letters Patent No. 95,567, dated Octber 5, 1869.

IMPROVED WASHING-Mmmm The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

' .To (dta-hom it may concern lBe it known that we, JOHN CRAMPTON and WIL- .MAM H. PANGBORN, of Plaineld, in the county of Union, and State of New Jersey, have invented, made, and applied to use, a new and useful Improvement in \\'ashing-l\Iachines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a correct and full description. thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein- -Figure 1. is a vertical transverse section of the said machine;

Figure Zis a side view ofthe dasher detached; and Figure 3 shows the side of one of the squeezingslats and frame. Y f

. lsimilar marks oi' reference denote the same parts.

The washing-machines that have heretofore been made, have had some one or more objectionable point-s: either the fabric is rubbed and injured, or else the water is not passed through the clothes sufficiently to cleanse all parts, or the clothes had to be turned overby hand, or rubbed in those places that were not clean, or else the mechanism was complicated and diiicult to manage o1` to keep clean.

'lhis invention is devised with a view to squeeze the water out of the vclothes with great rapidity and freedom, and allow the clothes to change position, by. gravity, with rapidity, and absorb the water by opening out'loosely in the same', thus' insuring a most thorongh rinsing of the clot-hes through the water and forcing of water through the fabric.l 'At the same time, the machine itself is not obstructed, by giving motion to the water by the dasher as it is moved by hand.

Our invention relates to an open dasher of slats, set to be vibrated in the tub or receptacle, contracted at the top, in combination with a frame of vertical adjustable squeezing-slats, against whichthe clothes are pressed to squeeze out the water, and from which lslats the Clothes fall and expand, and spread loosely in thewater, again absorbing said waterand the suds, so that the washing-operationis performed by the suds passed rapidly through the fabrics, -by the alternate squeezing and expansion.

In the drawinga is the curved bottom,

b, the sides, and A c, the ends, forming the tub or receptacle.

d is a movable lid, and f f are the side-pieces ofthe dasher, united at their 'upper ends by a handle, g.

h h are cross-pieces, between the side-pices f, and

i i are vertical slats, between the bars hah.

The dasher formed' of these parts is set to swingen centres o o. These may be removable, so'tbat the dasher may be lifted out in cleaning the receptacle or tub.

k k are squeezing-slats, formed of rails k, united by vertical slats l l, the whole forming a frame, as seen in fig. 3.

These squeezing-slats are introduced in the tub at anangle to each other, and nearly on the radial line ofthe arc of the'circle in which the dasher swings, so as to coincide with said dasher in the extreme portions of its movement.

By this construction, the open slats'of the dasherl and squeezing-frames allowf the water to escape with freedom as the clothes are squeezed between them, and the slats afford but little resistance to the movement of the,dasher in the water; hence the washing is performed with but little labor` and with great rapidity. 

